June 8, 2006

Good Morning!
Today I'll post a few more reader reviews on The Radical Edge. It's a great read. It's one of those books that makes you want to get up and do something great after you've read it.
To get you started, here's Jack's review.

About Dylan Schleicher

Dylan Schleicher has been a part of the 800-CEO-READ claque since 2003. Even though he's stayed on at the company, he has not stayed put. After beginning in shipping & receiving, he joined customer service and accounting before moving into his current, highly elliptical orbit of duties overseeing the ChangeThis and In the Books websites, the company's annual review of books and in-house design. He lives with his wife and two children in the Washington Heights neighborhood on Milwaukee's West Side.

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The Radical Edge by Steve Farber
Have you ever had a WUP upside your head?
In The Radical Edge, Steve Farber gets hit with a WUP (Wake-Up Pad) by his friend Smitty, a hyperactive beach bum and successful CIO (Clear Insight Officer) with red dreadlocks, a giant, red mustache, and round, lemon-yellow sunglasses perched on top of his wide, prominent nose. He also consults with a tall, slightly plump African-American woman named Agnes, at least 90 years old, with gray, luminous eyes, who tells Steves leadership trainee that shell kick his ass from here to Hialeah if she thinks it will help him but then explains that it all starts with the heart.

Review of The Radical Edge
by Steve Farber, Kaplan, April 2006
I read a lot of non-fiction, and I don't usually have much patience for business books written as stories. In fact, I wasn't sure what word to use to describe the genre until I looked up Farber's other book after reading this one. Ah, here we go: business fable.

I started with a list of 22 books that I thought deserved year-end honors. The narrowing of the list was the hard part. I quickly marked the ones I knew should be on my list and looked to see if they had something in common.